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This song is so brilliant that I can't understand why it is not more revered. Stuart, I miss you more each day. Your music will live forever.

this is so bogus

Seen Hip a dozen times. classic. they are canada, not just kingston!

too funny to listen to these comms, were any of you born when the Cramps played in 1984?

Cripes, even pretending you understand Vicious and the scene in UK at that time.

You need to read a few books. If you think you understand any of this at 14, you really should read 'The Tale of Two Cities' f...

Holy crap. I lived the Pixies through universtiy. THis is amazing. It does not get much better. "said the man"

Followed Pixies for 20 years. let's calm down. Kim is amazing. Frank too. The lack of proper language and intelligence here stiffles comms, but hey, call her a 'hottie', based on a video from 20 years ago.

My main musical tastes are pretty extreme - either Bach, Mozart or Metallica and Rotting Christ. But now and again, I am astonished. Sarah McLachlan was brilliant beyond belief. Now, I don't know much about her, but Adele captivates me with her songs and her incredibly powerful voice. That's t...

Moon was a prodigy for sure and then suffered (died) from an his obsessions. I like early Who that shows Keith at his raw best. It's barely restrained anarchy, which is why the Who actually mattered.

no one ever post s here, so sad. best Hip song

under-appreciated for sure. Rusty stole my interest in the early 1990s amongst much clutter. I still love them.

yup, listening in 2011 now, despite I first listened in 1980! pretty sure we should all know rude boy by now, cripes!

i know of no other song with a cornet that does not destroy my mind.

When I was 12, i would sit at a fold-up card table to do my homework. My brother brought home a 45 with "It's All Too Much" on the B side. I knew the Beatles well, but this song blew me away. Now, some 30 years later, it still does. George, et al, thanks for the reprieve from life.

don't mix the vid with music. I like the vid, but frankly, I don't have my life to waste on videos and I really don't care. song, is awesome, and classic WS

why would anyone reference the Simpsons except as a pretense to a punchline the rest of us fans probably won't understand?

well, having grown up on The Who, looking back, I marvel at Moon at the strange, renetic, brilliant machine he was. Ent as stoneface is not new, but a drummer?

All BC fans revel in the brilliance and simplicity of this wonderful song. I cry when I hear it even now.

Assuredly, I have heard every BC song many dozens of times. The Storm caught me when I was just shy of 17. A treasure. An epic song if we ever could define one. I iss Stuart so much and watching the band play. I want Tony, Mark and Bruce to know they will forever be in my mind and heart. Stu...

i've remarked on BC's emotional and intellectual impact on me for years.

Tony and Mark are really two of the most remarkable musicians you will ever hear. Technical strong, rock solid, innovative, flexible. THey flow. Tony's bass never fights a song and Mark never drives it - he coordinates wi...

when I was 17, I heard Steeltown siting forelorn in my parent's basement. then I heard 'shadow' a few days later. I was so dumbfounded. It was like reading Shakespeare for the first time. I was exposed to worlds of emotion, landscapes of strife, valleys of despair, mountains of hope, that I d...

This does have to be one of the saddest songs I have ever heard. And I first heard it when I was 17, imagine that. I cried so hard without knowing the hardship of life. I hated Stuart and BC for vanquishing my youth, but I loved them for opening my eyes to the realities of our world and the be...

sh#t. The Seer was a constant companion when I was at school and never heard 13 valleys live. Stuart and co were, and are, my mentors still, in 2011. I've seen probably 175+ bands in my life, some fun, some good, some historic, some enchanted, some wild, some crazy. Only BC was truly remarkab...

I was 17 in 1983 sitting in my parent's basement, in Toronto, my folks rife with debt and I was off to university, but with a partial scholarship and good prospects. I sat there with my dog, alone, wondering about what I knew about life. Then I heard Steeltown on the radio. My world changed fo...

see 'em 20+ times live. always a joy. this just allows me to remember how amazing they are when I can't see 'em. watch 'Put It Off', surely the best Hip Song.

All I can say is that I saw the Hip (first of dozens) in 1985 at the Horseshoe in TO and man, Gord was never going to leave my life after that experience I can assure you.

Now I;m crying rainbow tears.

Brilliant by this young woman who cannot recall the reality of this in 1982.

tres bien! au francais! trois pistoles, c'est frais.

She never had any time for me, 'cause I didn't protest enough.

I have the 12" vinyl extended version of Wonderland and I will never part from it. It has Giant on the other side. Can you imagine! This is music for the soul.

I've been a fan of BC since first hearing them in 1983 as a high school kid in Toronto. Even now, I shudder when I watch footage like this. They were so remarkable, so incredible live, so emotional, so real. Bands come and go. Very few will stay with me.. Big Country ranks at the top of my li...

ha carumba! I just burned all the guitars in my neigbourhood.

massive appreciation for dissection of this song and love of beatles. i don't think they will ever be surpassed. 200 years from now, intelligent beings will listen to Beethoven, Mozart and the Beatles. Not Lady Gaga. we all know what this song is about (read), but listen to the song. 'She's n...

thanks for posting. this song brings back very vivid memories and is hard to find. It reminds me of lost love, lost youth (I was out of time) and actually, the beauty of being alone. this song is way more complex than anyone recognized on several levels. the 'flat' sound is so remniscent, so obs...

Moon treated his meager kit as boots to broken in, irrespective of everyone else. I can't imagine a more natural talent and absolute goof. glad to see the comm on Ent, as I'm a big fan of his.

glad to know fans still exist. Inwards was absolutely shocking to me in late 1984 when I first heard it. It was the first real anthem song to my mind and one that related to days of past, to heroes, to the working man, to struggle and strife, to the grand challenge of life. I was blown away, a...

have loved deal forever. man, she rocks.

'and I love that for, for the way I'm feeling'

can't you remember this? shit, Gord remembers it perfectly. It was an ideal, it was religious, but when flooding, you didn't have to think or nothing

man, forget levees or origins. You are sitting at the end of everything and then it breaks, and man, you have to move. You decide.

gotta say moon was a freak even here. keith- you were the best and we all knew it.

poetry set to music, I can't even express how much I miss Stuart. he saved me life, very directly, in 1984, with the Crossing and more so when he spoke 'to me' on Steeltown. I love Mark, Bruce and Tony for all the world and all they have made BC. They are brlliant. Yet, Stuart was the voice a...

brilliant interpretation... my YouTube, PS3, Wii, Facebook, text-happy kids run from this and I love it.

holy cow! you don't get this song? It certainly does not mean everyone or everything is beautiful. As a rule, I hate produced videos. I love live footage, but videos are a complete bore. Yet, a decade ago, this captured my attention and I find it stil brilliant. Absolutely magnificent salesm...

sorry, with all due respect, this is the Clash's best song, but I could argue for 'Hate and War' if pressed, or maybe 'Straight to Hell' if we really had to debate....

I love Rudie for its diversity and praise for the Rude Boy.

funny, grew up on the clash, but never saw them live. but I remember very vividly sitting in my friend's basement listening to 'safe' when I was about 15-16 and I was totally blown away. Kind of different from other stuff at that time in North America. I was hooked, and now I play 'rudie can't...

it's hard to fault this performance. I've followed Sarah for years and this version is so passionate and with the right lyrics. a brilliant song by one of a handful of artists I can safely rate as genius despite her modesty.